Retail shelving and the average customer
The average customer probably never considers the wide range of shelving being used in the shop or supermarket.
A corner shop, for instance, will need to make optimum use of wall space and will use retail shelving units best suited for the purpose. Cold cabinets and freezers will need gridded shelves that are easily removed to be cleaned and adjustable to allow the shopkeeper to add more shelves and increase the amount of items on display. Alcoholic and soft drinks are usually stored in the cold cabinets.
The typical corner shop will retail all manner of consumer goods. Another great space saver is the revolving display unit, upon which various items can be stored, batteries, fuses, screws and other household miscellanea. Behind the counter, a shelving unit to display tobacco items would be used. Around the shop walls, two different types of retail shelving may be used. A display unit to stock newspapers and magazines can be really effective, for example. The shopkeeper, however, will use flat shelves mounted on a racking system for the majority of his other goods.
The supermarket will basically use similar systems to display its goods, but on a much larger scale. The butchers and fishmongers counters again need to use cabinets that can be easily cleaned for obvious hygiene reasons; the same is true of freezer and cold cabinets. The fruit and vegetable section of the supermarket will use stackable baskets that fit into a static display unit. Most supermarkets occasionally use open-topped cages to hold cheap DVDs and CDs.
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